Optional: install srcML command line tool

srcML can also be used as a command line tool to generate XML representations of source code. It is used by litgen to generate the bindings.

You do not need to install srcML if you are using litgen, but it might be useful to have it installed to inspect the generated XML files.

Either install srcML from pre-compiled binaries

You can download a pre-compiled version at srcML.org

For example, on ubuntu 20.04:

wget http://131.123.42.38/lmcrs/v1.0.0/srcml_1.0.0-1_ubuntu20.04.deb
sudo dpkg -i srcml_1.0.0-1_ubuntu20.04.deb

Or build srcML from source

Note: the build instructions in srcML repository are a bit out of date, which is why these instructions are provided here. It uses a fork of srcML that fixes some compilation issues on the develop branch

Install required packages

On ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libarchive-dev antlr libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

On macOS:

brew install antlr2 boost

Clone, build and install srcML

git clone https://github.com/pthom/srcML.git -b develop_fix_build
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ../srcML && make -j
sudo make install